GCN Circular 25483
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190814bv : Magellan IMACS Spectrum of AT2019npv classified as a Type Ib supernova
Event
Date
2019-08-27T03:33:34Z (6 years ago)
From
Sebastian Gomez at Harvard U <sgomez@cfa.harvard.edu>
S. Gomez, G. Hosseinzadeh, E. Berger, P. K. Blanchard, T. Eftekhari, J. Gill, L. Patton,
V. A. Villar, P. K. G. Williams (Harvard U), P. S. Cowperthwaite (Carnegie Obs), R. Chornock (Ohio U),
W. Fong, R. Margutti, K. D. Alexander (Northwestern U), and M. Nicholl (U Edinburgh) report:
We observed AT2019npv (Goldstein et al. GCN 25393) with the IMACS optical spectrograph on the
Magellan 6.5m telescope (Dressler et al. 2011) on 2019 Aug 26 09:26:09UT. We corroborate
the redshift measurement of z = 0.056 from Jonker et al. (GCN 25454) and De. et al.
(GCN 25480, 25461